{
  "id": "charged.electrical",
  "term": "charged",
  "sense": "electrical",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "physical world",
  "domain": "physics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "When matter has a pattern of energy that is not the same as before and can change others through contact.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "energy.capacity",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "contact.physical",
      "change.process",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "Matter with a persistent energy pattern interacts across boundaries through physical contact, enabling energy flow when connected.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "persistent energy disparity",
      "capacity for inducing change at a distance via contact",
      "asymmetry in energy distribution"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A Tesla Powerwall stores surplus solar energy at 400 volts, releasing it when household demand exceeds supply.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Lightning during the 1994 Dalgate fire in Kashmir transferred gigajoules of charge through dry pine, igniting the forest.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "An electric eel in the Amazon generates 600 volts from electrocyte cells to stun prey during hunting.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "electricity.electrical",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "charged matter enables electricity"
    },
    {
      "id": "difference.relation",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "charged contrasts with neutral in pattern of energy"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "electricity.electrical",
    "phone.electrical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "charged"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts: change.process, others.distinct-entities, and time.dimension, which are necessary for the definition's claim about altered states and effects on others. The origin"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-charged.electrical"
}